Powerpuff Girls DVD Viral!

Smells like the workings of a certain Mojo Jojo. PPG disc will infect your computer.

By Steven Horn

Somewhere (along with the legendary hundreds of thousands of ET: The Extra Terrestrial Atari 2600 game cartridges) is a mountain of diseased PPG discs just waiting for destruction.

Is this another sinister plot from the inner-workings of the volcano-top observatory? No? Well, has anyone seen the Gangrene Gang lately? Or maybe Fuzzy Lumpkins got his country ass a computer? Well, somebody in Townsville was naughty and allowed a three-year old computer virus to find its way onto the Powerpuff Girls' latest DVD.

Every single copy (including those distributed to the reviewing press) of "Meet the Beat-Alls," released Tuesday, has been recalled by Warner Home Video because three of the DVD-ROM extra features contain the 1999 computer virus FunLove. The program that installs the supplemental material is also infected.

Warner Brothers' DVD Quality Control Team.

FunLove is a pretty nasty badboy. It attacks computers on the system level and can replicate onto other drives on a network. It can infect Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT.

Symantec has prepared this data for you on how to remove the virus if you are one of the unlucky souls to be infected with it.

No word yet on the procedure for returning an infected disc though we suspect most major retailers are aware of the recall and will replace your DVD or give you store credit.